Identifier: sacredlegendarya02byujame (find matches)
Title: Sacred and legendary art
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Jameson, Mrs. (Anna), 1794-1860 Hurll, Estelle M. (Estelle May), 1863-1924
Subjects: Christian art and symbolism Saints
Publisher: Boston, Houghton, Mifflin
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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St. Nicholas, whetherit consists of many or few subjects, this beautiful incident isnever omitted. As a Greek series we have generally two orthree or more of the following subjects. Sometimes the selec-tion of scenes is from his life; sometimes from the miraclesperformed after his death, or after his translation from thecoast of Syria to the coast of Italy; or both are combined. 1. His infant piety. The scene is the interior of a room,where his mother is seen in bed ; in the foreground, attendantsare busied round the new-born saint, who, with a glory roundhis head, stands upright in his bath, his hands joined inprayer, and his eyes raised to heaven. 2. He stands, as a boy of about twelve years old, listeningto the words of a preacher, who points him out to his congre-gation as the future saint. ST. NICHOLAS 453 3. His charity to the three poor girls : they are seenthrough a door, asleep in an inner chamber; the father sits infront; outside the house, the saint stands on tiptoe, and is
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Charity of St. Nicholas (Angelico) throwing the purse in at the window. (Angelico, VaticanGallery.) (In a small picture which I have seen, but cannot recollectthe painter, two of the maidens are reposing, but the third istaking off her fathers boot; he sits as one overpowered with 454 THE PATRON SAINTS OF CHRISTENDOM sorrow and fatigue: the saint is outside looking in at thewindow. This is an unusual version; and seems to express,not the act of charity, but the previous moment, and the filialattention of the daughters to their poor father.) 4. The consecration of St. Nicholas as bishop of Myra.We have this subject, by Paul Veronese, in our National Gal-lery. 5. The Famine at Myra. A seaport with ships in the dis-tance ; in front a number of sacks of corn, and men employedin measuring it out, or carrying it away; St. Nicholas in hisepiscopal robes stands by, as directing the whole. 6. The Storm at Sea. Seamen on board a sinking vessel ;St. Nicholas appears as a vision above; in one han

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